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President Barack Obama leans out from under an umbrella to check if it's still raining, during a joint news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Thursday, May 16, 2013, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Is the media fawning over President Obama finally coming to an end?

That's the question the Boston Herald "Press Party" tackled in free-wheeling debate among a panel of media and political experts, including Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone, author and journalist Michele McPhee and Herald chief political reporter Hillary Chabot. The half-hour Web show, hosted by the Herald's Joe Battenfeld, focused on whether Obama's recent struggles to contain an IRS scandal and new revelations about the Benghazi terror attack would draw more scrutiny from some of the long slumbering media outlets covering the White House. Take a look: